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[...] friend and occasional hotel room crasher Brad Ward wrote a post last fall about Twitter and its been stuck in my mind ever [...]

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 16:37:58 +0000

Brian – Twitter does not allow you to export this type of data, but you could ask them to opt-in using an existing method.

By: brian

brian — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:08:12 +0000

Brad – cool stuff. What if I wanted to leverage other communications to these prospective students. Is there a way to get their email, mobile #, etc so I can leverage other communication methods? (does twitter provide a manner to bulk get at this kind of stuff)

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:13:14 +0000

I accept any and all SWAG. Please send to:

Brad J Ward
Butler University
4600 Sunset Ave
RH106
Indianapolis, IN 46208

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:47:24 +0000

Set this up last week and already have 10 subscribers. Great tip – I should send you some Allegheny gear

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:05:17 +0000

I’ve infected all of the neighborhood kids with twitter this summer (of course they’re all 13 and older per TOS) — they all think it’s great, and are daily/power users. My guess is that college students will start jumping on as word gets out.

By: Melissa Cheater

Melissa Cheater — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:14:32 +0000

twitter is 2008’s media-nerd darling jealous that my canadianness keeps me out of the loop on SMS tho …

By: Brad J. Ward

Brad J. Ward — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:00:29 +0000

@Andrew – I’m working on a blog post about this, but in a nutshell… it’s not so much about how many students use it, but engaging those who truly care with the tool. With no cost and extremely minimal effort on this, why not provide the option?

Kids don’t use Twitter. Kids DO use text. Present it as that and you’ll take the effort further.

Then, send the $50 gift card to me.

By: Andrew Meyers

Andrew Meyers — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:57:00 +0000

Brad, this is a great option for using Twitter. This could be a really great option for connecting with students.

One concern I might have is how many students would actually sign up for it, especially after the stats you brought up. How about throwing a $50 Amazon gift card to a randomly selected follower as a perk for signing up?

By: Mike Nolan

Mike Nolan — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:38:36 +0000

I wasn’t *too* bothered about losing SMS in the UK until I read this! This would have been a really cool thing to do. Now we’ll have to run something similar ourselves.